Joonhwi Kim
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

I am a PhD candidate at Caltech. My research is about spacetime, black holes, quantum particles and fields, and a geometrical understanding of our universe. #General_Relativity #Scattering_Amplitudes #Twistor_Theory

During my time in California, I investigated:

  • Spinning Black Holes:
    • Twistor particle program rebooted [2,3]
    • Newman-Janis algorithm promoted to a rigorous derivation [8]
    • Probe Newman-Janis algorithm; spin exponentiation from hidden symmetry [15]
    • Kerr effective action, all orders
    • Compton amplitudes via (curved) massive twistor theory
    • Post-Minkowskian gravity applications [6]
  • Generalized Symmetries:
    • In dynamical gravity [4]
  • Double Copy / Color-Kinematics Duality:
    • Self-dual black holes from classical double copy [5]
    • Field-theoretic ideas for amplitudes double copy
    • Twistorial ideas for amplitudes double copy [11]
  • Scattering Theory Foundations:
    • Phase space worldlines [9,11]
    • S-symplectomorphism (in-in formalism, Magnus expansion) [2,7,12,14]
  • Differential Geometry:
    • Riemannian [10]
    • Symplectic [11]

This marks a productive 5-year period with 14 papers and 5 invited talks. (More to come!)